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EU Proposal to Monitor "Intolerant" Citizens

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Gatestone Institute: Soeren Kern, 10/28/13

Lars Hedegaard was acquitted by the Danish Supreme Court in 2012 on charges of "hate speech" for critical comments he made about Islam.

 

"There is no need to be tolerant to the intolerant" — European Framework National Statute for the Promotion of Tolerance, Article 4

"The supra-national surveillance that it would imply would certainly be a dark day for European democracy." — European Dignity Watch

While European leaders are busy expressing public indignation over reports of American espionage operations in the European Union, the European Parliament is quietly considering a proposal that calls for the direct surveillance of any EU citizen suspected of being "intolerant."

US probably spied on Norway, too

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News in English - 10/28/13, Nina Berglund

 

Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre was in Washington DC last week and met with US Secretary State Hillary Clinton, who also welcomes the changes in what's now being called Myanmar. PHOTO: Siri H. Hollekim Haaland / Ambassaden i Washington

Jonas Gahr Støre, shown here last year with former US  Secretary of State Hillary Clinton when he was still Norway’s foreign minister, calls the US’ alleged spying on allies as “unacceptable” but doesn’t think it will stop. PHOTO: Siri H. Hollekim Haaland / Ambassaden i Washington

 

Jonas Gahr Støre, who served as Norway’s foreign minister for seven years in the former left-center government, says it would be be “naive” to believe that Norwegian politicians like himself have avoided being spied on by the US and other countries. Both Støre and new Prime Minister Erna Solberg, though, call such spying “completely unacceptable.”

NSA spying: The faux outrage of America's bugged allies

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CBC News - 10/29/13, Neil MacDonald

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Americans upset at the country's electronic spying take part in a "rally against mass surveillance" in Washington on Saturday. (Jonathan Ernst / Reuters)

 

So, "there's a lot of faux outrage out there" whenever a Snowden bomb drops, one contact says.

In fact, one of the few straightforward reactions amid all the indignation over the NSA spying came from Bernard Kouchner, the former French foreign minister (and founder of Doctors Without Borders): "Let's be honest, we eavesdrop too," he told an interviewer.

More: CBC.ca

 

Thousands of Romanians protest Canada gold mine project

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Press TV - 10/27/13, IA/HN/AS

 

Romanians protest against a Canadian gold mine project in the capital Bucharest on October 6, 2013.

Romanians protest against a Canadian gold mine project in the capital Bucharest on October 6, 2013.
 
 
Thousands of Romanians have staged demonstrations in a ninth week of protests against plans by a Canadian company to open Europe’s largest gold mine in the country.

On Sunday, approximately 2500 people marched in the capital Bucharest to show their opposition to the plans, chanting, "We want tourism, not cyanide.”

More: PressTV.ir

 

America's Most Beloved War Criminals

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truthout - 10/27/13, Justin Doolittle

 

Former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice arrives at a campaign event for Republican vice presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) at Baldwin Wallace University in Berea, Ohio, Oct. 17, 2012. (Photo: Max Whittaker / The New York Times)

Former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice arrives at a campaign event for Republican vice presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) at Baldwin Wallace University in Berea, Ohio, Oct. 17, 2012. (Photo: Max Whittaker / The New York Times)

 

US 'used its Yorkshire base to spy on Merkel' claims whistleblower

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Mail Online - 10/27/13, Caroline Graham and Robert Verkaik

 

Claim: NSA whistleblower J Kirk Wiebe implicated the British base

Claim: NSA whistleblower J Kirk Wiebe implicated the British base

 

The United States used a British spy base to listen in on the phone calls of Angela Merkel and 35 other world leaders, it was claimed last night.

RAF Menwith Hill in North Yorkshire, which is run by America’s National Security Agency (NSA), is the biggest surveillance and interception facility in Europe.

More: DailyMail.co.uk

 

UK signs EU statement rapping US spying activities

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Press TV - 10/27/13, MOL/NN/HE

British Prime Minister David Cameron reluctantly signs an EU statement deploring the US illegal spying operations.

British Prime Minister David Cameron reluctantly signs an EU statement deploring the US illegal spying operations.
 
The UK government has reluctantly, but without opposition, endorsed a European Union (EU) statement in which the member states voiced “deep concern” over Washington’s illegal spying activities on its allies and adversaries alike.
 
The German and French governments were also seeking to isolate Britain due to its close cooperation with the US in global spying operations exposed by former CIA contractor and fugitive whistleblower Edward Snowden in leaks to the London-based The Guardian newspaper.

More: PressTV.ir

 

Exclusive: Who Killed Michael Hastings?

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Occupy.com - 10/24/13, Carl Gibson

 

Early in the morning on June 18, a brand new Mercedes C250 coupe was driving through the Melrose intersection on Highland Avenue in Hollywood when suddenly, out of nowhere, it sped up. According to an eye-witness, the car accelerated rapidly, bounced several times then fishtailed out of control before it slammed into a palm tree and burst into flames, ejecting its engine some 200 feet away.

A witness, Jose Rubalcalva, whose house stood adjacent to the crash, told Ana Kasparian of The Young Turks news network that no one could approach the burning car because it kept exploding. In a simulated full-frontal crash of a 2013 C250 coupe, the car doesn’t explode on impact nor does it launch its engine 200 feet.

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